US Patent Issued to Crown Castle USA on Nov. 11 for "System for optimizing a single frequency network broadcast" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,047, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Crown Castle USA Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"System for optimizing a single frequency network broadcast" was invented by Allen J. Fine (Sanford, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated system and method for optimizing a single frequency network (SFN), such as a television broadcast network, that has network transmitters which simultaneously broadcast a same time-synchronized signal over a same frequency over a coverage area. In the system, remote monitoring stations are distributed in the coverage area. A network analyzer of each station is configured to measure time and amplitude measure...